Totes Faves

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18: 1984, the year
March 23, 2017

Journey to the not-to-distant past as we dissect our Totes Faves from the Year 1984. Turns out, not a Big Brother-controlled dystopia after all. Well, unless you lived in Northern India in the 1940s and had your Sankara stones stolen....

17: Visions of the Future
January 30, 2017

We found time out from screaming into the ravine of our present Hellscape to really thinking about the future, our Totes Faves Future. Flying cars, high-waisted pants and lesbian robot maids - it really is a great, big beautiful tomorrow!

16: 1991 Sears Holiday Wishbook
December 18, 2016

Just in time for your last minute holiday shopping, we decide our favorite gifts from a 1991 Sears catalog we randomly found online.

15: Pop Culture Presidents (w/ Brendan Collins)
November 21, 2016

We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our fictional Presidents! (Please note: This podcast was recorded on Election Day Eve, as you may detect from th

14: MINISODE - What Scared These Babies of the 80s?
October 30, 2016

It's our very first Minisode-on-the-Road! Brandon & Zara put together a Totes Faves list of the movies, books and TV that spawned a generation of childhood nightmares. Listen now, before we relegate this episode to the shelf in the living room where we

13: Ghosts
October 25, 2016

It's getting a little spooky in the Fave-o-Tron as we sit down to list our favorite friendly ghosts. Will anything ever be as hot as Peak Alec Baldwin? Would YOU be pissed if someone wrote a character inspired by you, and it turned out to be a fat ghost?

12: Chain Restaurants
October 13, 2016

We're joined by Totes Fave sibling and superfan, Aarthi, to discuss our favorite chain restaurants. How much is too much sodium? What makes a pizza from California? Will we ever get our baby back baby back baby back ribs? All this and more, listen now!

11: Reboots
September 15, 2016

What better time to talk reboots than on a rebooted podcast? We took the summer off to streamline our format and purify the mighty rivers of the things we love into their essential FAVE-ness. Enough aquatic metaphors – OK one more – let’s open the floodga

10: Jungle Animals (w/ Brian Faas)
May 02, 2016

With the success of Disney's "The Jungle Book" revival fresh in our brains, we decided it was high time to throw our favorite jungle animals into the Battledome. Join us to find out who is the King of the Swingers, the jungle VIP!

9: Oscar Neverbeens (w/ Adam Markovitz)
March 15, 2016

As we safely bid goodbye to another Academy Awards Season, we found ourselves pondering the movie performances throughout history that really deserved some Oscar love.